# El Salvador deploys over 2,000 troops to Haiti amid search for missing technicians

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/el-salvador-sends-2000-troops-to-haiti-to-rescue-four-missing-soldiers/
- Published: 2026-10-29T06:24:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T08:02:34+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC World (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck0e075n79j5o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: World

## Key points

- El Salvador deployed over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti.
- Four Salvadoran technicians have been missing for nearly two weeks.
- Gangs control much of Port-au-Prince amid worsening violence.

## Summary

El Salvador has sent more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to search for four Salvadoran air force technicians missing for nearly two weeks. The deployment was announced by President Nayib Bukele and is also intended to support efforts against gangs, amid rising tensions between the two countries over the men’s disappearance.

The technicians were travelling in an armoured vehicle to their base with the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force when they were ambushed in Croix-des-Bouquets, an area controlled by armed groups; no gang has claimed responsibility. Haiti handed over four bodies said to be the missing men, but Bukele rejected the identification. The UN says more than 5,700 people have been killed in gang-related violence in Haiti this year, while the multinational force has struggled to reach areas under gang control.

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